Maxwell
School’s history department to host lecture honoring long-time faculty member Otey
Scruggs
A lecture in
honor of the late Otey Scruggs, a distinguished historian who served on the
Maxwell School faculty for more than 35 years, will be held on Monday, October
6. Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, associate
professor of American culture and history, and director of the Center for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss “How
Migration to New York Shaped the Politics of Race and Citizenship in Late-19th
Century Cuba.”
Scruggs, who
retired from Syracuse University in 1995, was an expert on 19th
century American history and African American history. His publications include Braceros, ‘Wetbacks,’ and the Farm Labor Problem: A History of Mexican
Agricultural Labor in the U.S., 1942-1954 and We the Children of Africa in this Land: Alexander Crummell.
Hoffnung-Garskof
is the author of A Tale of Two
Cities: Santo Domingo and New York After
1950. His talk will be followed by
responses from Andrew Wender Cohen, associate professor of history and the Otey
and Barbara Scruggs History Faculty Scholar at the Maxwell School, and Gladys
McCormick, assistant professor of history at Maxwell.
The lecture, which is sponsored by the History Department, will be held
in 204 Maxwell Hall on October 6 at 4:00 p.m. with a reception following the
program. 09/24/14